The first year of treatment (baseline treatment) varied — ranging from 2003 to 2012 — among countries where treatment was provided depending on schistosomiasis prevalence levels. The data used ...

1 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health ... S Knopp acknowledges additional financial support from the Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (sub-award no ...

Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease ... But there'll be one or two places where disease prevalence is still higher than it should be and those areas need to be more heavily scrutinized.

Despite affecting an estimated 56 million women and girls across sub-Saharan Africa, Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) remains one of the continent's least recognized and most underreported ...

MANILA, Philippines—Still endemic, or unique, in almost 30 provinces, schistosomiasis ... Control” with just less than five percent prevalence of heavy intensity infection for five years.

Blood samples of patients infected with a parasitic worm that causes schistosomiasis contain hidden information that marks different stages of the disease. In our recently published research, our team ...

Female genital schistosomiasis - FGS - affects an estimated ... condition affects women in Sub-Saharan Africa, despite its prevalence. As FGS symptoms mirror many sexually transmitted diseases ...

The professor of Parasitology explained that urinary schistosomiasis is a condition ... that their research showed the disease has a low prevalence in the country compared to other African countries.

When Dr. Isaac Chikwanha was a kid in Zimbabwe, he got schistosomiasis. At the time, he didn't think about the cause of this parasitic disease: a worm that penetrates your skin and takes up ...

1 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health ... S Knopp acknowledges additional financial support from the Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (sub-award no ...